Mr. Excelsior
Art by MadJack-S
Mr. Excelsior

History | Powers | Abilities | Paraphernalia
Weapons | Weaknesses | Trivia


History

Written by: Joshua W. Murcray

Born in the slums of Gônoprojatontri Bangladesh, Michael was abandoned by his birth mother and left in a trash can just minutes after birth. An hour later, a dumpster diver heard the wails and recovered Michael from the trash. Michael was then turned over to the nearest orphanage who raised Michael until he was seven years old. At that time, tired of always being hungry and thinking he could make it on his own, Michael ran away.

Scrounging for parts and food, Michael soon built himself a bicycle and used to ride around town, delivering messages, food and supplies for businesses that could pay him. At night he would retreat to his private shelter he had cobbled together from old tires and used plastic.

One stormy night, riding his bicycle through town on his way back to his shelter, Michael was struck by a speeding car as it tried to evade the police. Catapulted across the street, Michael slammed into the unyielding wall of the corner store. It would be this traumatic event that triggered his meta-mutant abilities. Michael did not fall to the ground. Having been splattered across the wall, Michael oozed down the side, forming into a puddle on the ground where he slowly rose back up into his humanoid form. Shaking and staring at his hands and arms, Michael realized that he was completely unharmed...and could stretch his body!

By the time he was eight he had already created solar panels for his shelter, giving him electricity to power the laptop he had rebuilt from parts found in the trash. Now that he could stretch, Michael had moved his shelter to be on top of an old abandoned building that had no ladder or stairs to reach the top. Michael just would wait for the coast to be clear, and then stretch himself up the side and climb onto the roof.

Using the internet, he quickly began absorbing all the free information he could read. It took him only a couple of days to create a program that could hack Pay-To-Use sites and gain access to them. By the end of the year Michael was going to school online and advancing quickly.

When Michael turned 10, he graduated from high school online. He had gained enough money through online gambling and investment banking to buy a house, online and with a fake ID, as well as hire staff to cook and clean for him. At this time, he upgraded all the technology in his home and soon was inventing new software and technology for his new passion, engineering.

At age 11 Michael entered college, online again, and began to excel in all subjects. But soon he had to finally go in person and deal with his age being a factor.

After applying and taking an Intelligence Quotient exam, Michael was accepted into M.I.T. with a full scholarship just before his 12th birthday. He joined the track-n-field team as he enjoyed plotting the physics of his speed and jumps as well as secretly testing his stretching abilities by subtly lengthening his stride or making his body more aerodynamic. Academic testing proved that Michael was gifted with a 201 I.Q. making him the smartest person on the planet, at age 13!

Michael also showed that he had a talent for excelling at anything he attempted. His natural ability to be the best at everything soon paid off when he got his Bachelors, Masters and Doctorate within the first three years of his life at M.I.T.

After seeing The T.I.T.A.N.S. on television, Michael decided to try becoming a superhero as well and began creating his suit, E-Spheres and other gear. After inventing fluctuating nanites, Michael soon had his costume and gear ready to go.

Now, as Mr. Excelsior, Michael uses his intelligence, his powers and his company, Reeds Research Institute to fight crime in Third World countries as well as contribute to the improvement of villages, towns and cities that have been left to rot by greedy and corrupt governments as a member of The Foundation.

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Powers

Malleable Physiology

Bouncing Ball: Mr. Excelsior can transform himself into any of a number of resilient shapes, such as balls or springs that allow him to leap or bounce great distances.

Canopy, Parachute or Sheath: Mr. Excelsior can extend his body in two directions, creating a canopy, parachute, or sheath, its thickness determined by the extent of its distention.

Contain Explosions: Mr. Excelsior may use his elastic form to contain explosions by enveloping them and allowing their force to expand him. He can enclose and absorb the energy of a large explosive, on the order of 8 to 12 pounds of TNT (excluding exotic, high density explosives). Such shocks to his system are physically exhausting.

Cushion: Mr. Excelsior may form his elastic form into a trampoline and other cushion-like objects, allowing him to safely catch falling people and objects.

Dense Flesh: Due to the great malleability and elasticity of his molecular structure, Mr. Excelsior is able to absorb the impact of any type of man-made ballistic projectile by deforming his body along the path of the projectile's trajectory at the point of initial impact.

Elongation: Mr. Excelsior can extend his limbs, torso, or neck to great distances: the maximum length he can distend before his body segments become painful is about 1,500 feet. (Although he can extend discrete body parts, such as a single finger, an ear, or an eye, he seldom if ever isolates such parts in his elongations.)

Fist Weapons: Mr. Excelsior may form his fists into large hammers, maces, etc., which improve his physical effectiveness in hand-to-hand combat.

Geometric Shapes: Mr. Excelsior has compressed his body into the shape of a solid sphere, a cylinder, a cube, a toroid, and a rectangular prism: he can assume the shape of any solid that he can envision clearly, of a volume no greater than 1.7 cubic feet (a sphere about 18 inches in diameter). He can generate thin-walled shapes that enclose great volumes of space.

Gliding: Mr. Excelsior can transform himself into aerodynamic shapes such as parachutes or hang-gliders. In this form he can support an additional 1,000 pounds (enough to hold the rest of The Foundation, even Ele'ele 'O Rokk).

Grappling: Mr. Excelsior may restrain opponents very efficiently by using his elastic form to entangle them.

Imitation: Mr. Excelsior may alter his basic physical features, allowing him to take on the appearance of any other man with similar hair and skin tone. One time, Mr. Excelsior actually increased his size and mass density, in effect bulking his body to "Ele'ele 'O Rokk-like proportions" while increasing his strength to the same levels as well. The force of his strikes was enough to stagger even Behemoth.

Movement: Mr. Excelsior can move at great speeds by stretching to his destination.

Open Locks: Mr. Excelsior may form his fingers into various types of keys, allowing him to open most forms of mechanical locks.

Redirect Projectiles: After his body absorbs the kinetic energy of a ballistic projectile's impact, Mr. Excelsior can expel the object back along its trajectory by flexing his body like a trampoline if he is adequately braced.

Semi-Solid Liquid State: Mr. Excelsior can willfully reduce his body into an almost liquid state in order to flow out of small cracks or passages, even through needle-sized holes.

Shape Changing: Mr. Excelsior can stretch, deform, expand, or compress his entire body or parts into any contiguous shape he can imagine for a variety of uses.

Slingshot: Mr. Excelsior may use his elastic form as a slingshot to hurl objects with great force.

Two-Dimensionality: Mr. Excelsior can flatten himself to the thickness of an average sheet of typing paper (.0035 inch) or narrow himself to a diameter small enough to pass through the eye of a #10 beading needle (about .045 x .06 inches).

Wind Generation: Mr. Excelsior may form his hands into fans, allowing him to generate wind by twirling them at great speeds.

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Abilities

Business Management

Chemistry

Eidetic Memory - Electrical Engineering

Gymnastics

Hypnotism

Investigation

Law

Master Martial Artist - Medicine - Multilingual

Olympic-Level Athlete

Political Science - Psychology

Science - Super-Genius Intellect

Tactical Analysis

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Paraphernalia

E-Spheres: His floating robotic spheres can do many things including project holographic images, create laser grids, serve as cameras, link with outside data networks, allowing him to fly by bearing his weight, self-destruct, generate powerful electrical charges, and strike as flying projectile weapons. They respond to his mental and vocal commands.

M-Mask: He is invisible to all forms of electronic detection. This ability is tied to nanotechnology woven into his specially designed "M-Mask" (which is molecularly bonded to his face and can disappear at will) and costume. His M-Mask also protects his face from chemicals and relays mental commands to his E-Spheres by detecting the subtle movements on his face. The M-Mask works in conjunction with an earpiece that acts as a communications system. Through his M-Mask, Mr. Excelsior can change instantaneously into costume and back again. Mr. Excelsior's M-Mask also doubles as an encephalitic broadcaster, picking up aggregate thought-waves, allowing him to communicate with his E-Spheres and even project a speaking hologram of himself, even if he is injured or too weak to speak.

Excelsior Costume: The rest of Mr. Excelsior's wardrobe is made of "fluctuating nanites." This means that the Excelsior Costume is attuned to his powers, which is why Mr. Excelsior's Excelsior Costume stretches with him. The Excelsior Costume also insulates him from electrical assaults. In addition, the Excelsior Costume is a wearable computer. His Excelsior Costume has a complete data processing and telemetry system woven into the material of the uniform on a molecular level. This forms a network with the E-Spheres. The Excelsior Costume can display data and touch-pad controls on the gauntlets. Its sensors can track all the E-Spheres and provide a picture of their immediate vicinity. The Excelsior Costume has an intricate scanner system which can detect things around the wearer, from how many people are in the next room to what dimension or planet they are on. Mr. Excelsior can also up-link the Excelsior Costume to any computer by stretching his fingertips to filament size and plugging them into an I/O data-port. With this, Mr. Excelsior can establish a comprehensive database of any computer's cybernetic protocols and encryption algorithms.

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Weapons

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Weaknesses

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Trivia

(Physical Features/Speaking Voice/Likely Vocabulary/Characteristics/Mannerisms)

Code Name: His code name is in tribute to Stan Lee.

Intelligence: Literally the smartest person on Earth-3175.

Physical Abnormality: Mr. Excelsior has gray hair along the side of his head despite being 18 years old. It is believed the trauma that triggered his powers also caused his hair to turn gray.

Voice: If this becomes a cartoon, Mr. Excelsior should be voiced by Echo Kellum.